Legal Opinion
Mygatt v. McArthur
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided February 7, 1906PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. Suit to restrain alleged infringement by defendants of two patents (U. S.), one a mechanical patent, and the other a design patent, but each relates to reflectors for artificial lights. The complainant alleges that defendants infringe both patents by the sale of the one article, a reflector for artificial lights.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The mechanical patent in suit, No. 634,295, dated October 3, 1899, to Goodchild, “Reflector for Incandescent Damps,” is much more formidable in words than in substance or complexity of construction. It has three claims, reading as follows:
“(1) The combination with the bulb of an incandescent lamp, of a light-reflector, which fits snugly but removably over the external surface of the downwardly-flared upper part of said bulb and is supported wholly and directly thereon, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
“(2) The combination with the bulb of an incandescent…
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